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From Death to Life

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Steve McQueen was a famous movie star in the 50s. He was also a crazy guy, a womanizer, a wild man in Hollywood. One day, years ago, Billy Graham told me that Steve McQueen called him up. He said, Mr. Graham, Im dying of cancer and I dont know God. Please come and talk with me. So Billy went to see him.

When Mr. Graham arrived, he said that Steve was just skin and bones. Steve told Billy, Ive had three wives and Ive fooled around with many women. Ive been unfaithful. Ive been a drunk. Can God forgive me?

Billy Graham explained Romans 10:9 to him: If you believe in your heart, and confess Jesus Christ with your lips, He comes into your life. Hell forgive you and give you eternal life. Then Mr. Graham led Steve in a prayer to open his heart to Jesus Christ. A few days later, Steve died.

What an impact his story must have had on the entertainment world! Im sure Steve McQueen is the last person many people imagined would convert to Christianity. But God is able to do “immeasurably more than anything we can ask or imagine.”

So dont give up on the person in your life who seems the furthest from the Lord. God can touch anyones heart, and He wants to use you and me in the process! Let God use you to win a soul for Him.

Smiling on the Outside

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One of my best friends in the whole world is David Hall from Arizona. He’s the Chairman of our Board of Directors, at this time, and has been for years.

Many years ago, when he was a successful young businessman he came to Jesus Christ. His wife brought him to a campaign we were having in a local church north of downtown Chicago. The thing that opened David Hall’s heart was this: apparently in my message I said, “There are some people smiling on the outside but crying on the inside.”

David Hall said to himself, “That’s me. He’s found me out. I’m putting on an act on the outside but inside I’m dying.” You know, the Bible says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can understand it?” The Lord answers His own question by saying, “I, the Lord, know the heart.”

Only God knows the heart. That’s why the Bible says, “Judge not that ye be not judged.” We don’t know what goes on inside a person. We may think we do, based on outward appearances, but most of the time only the person and the Lord know.

But the Bible also says, and this is the verse that led me to Jesus Christ… “If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved.”

David Hall believed in his heart and his life was revolutionized. It’s a good way to approach a conversation.